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Video Special: First spacewalk repair goes smoothly
Check out this amazing video of two NASA astronauts sailing through the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks…
UK: Heavy rain may have caused Apollo Theatre collapse
Heavy rainfall may have played a part in the ceiling collapse at London’s Apollo Theatre that injured 79 people. It…
Australia: Stifling temperatures hit Sydney
Heat has scorched Australia’s west and south in the last two weeks, but now it is finally time for Sydney…
Week in Weather – What’s Been Making Headlines this Week
Well it shouldn’t come as any surprise, but it’s been yet another huge week in the weather world – both…
Opinion: New Zealand’s UN Climate Report ‘a disgrace’
(Brian Fallow is the Herald’s Economics Editor) A year ago, this column described the state of New Zealand’s climate policy…
Video Special: The images of 2013
Check out some of the years’ most amazing images in this NZ Herald video special – showcasing the weird and…
The Sun is about to flip upside down…should we be worried?
The sun is set to “flip upside down” within weeks as its magnetic field reverses polarity in an event that…
World’s banana supply in ‘grave danger’ – is climate change to blame?
The world’s supply of bananas is under threat from plagues of bugs and fungal infections which could be disastrous if…
USA: Northeast buried in snow
Mounds of snow are piled throughout New York and New England after a blustery storm swept through, leaving behind more…
China: Pilots landing blind to prepare for smog
Smog in Beijing is now so bad and such a regular occurrence that the country’s civil aviation authority will require…
